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The red maple leaf is the quintessential symbol of Canada and the flag that popularized it throughout the world was designed in the 1960s as a result of government legislation aimed at creating a vital, new Canadian national identity through objects, events, and building projects. Made in Canada looks at the development of Canadian craft, design, and culture through(...)
Made in Canada : craft and design in the sixties
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The red maple leaf is the quintessential symbol of Canada and the flag that popularized it throughout the world was designed in the 1960s as a result of government legislation aimed at creating a vital, new Canadian national identity through objects, events, and building projects. Made in Canada looks at the development of Canadian craft, design, and culture through ambitious government programs meant to reinforce the country's identity as a modern, sophisticated, and autonomous nation. As well, it documents the demise of a singular notion of modern life and its replacement with a focus on personal identity and consumerism. Changes in the 1960s included the building of modern airports, first space satellite, and new national symbols such as the maple leaf flag. Canadians embraced this heightened sense of individuality and demanded products that were equally individual. As a result pop culture objects sat on cool furniture influenced by Scandinavian modernism while handmade crafts reflected a growing concern with environmental issues. Expo 67 was the turning point - one final expression of optimism before Canada was rocked by social change and varied struggles for identity. Made in Canada examines national dreams and expressions of individuality in thoughtful and illuminating essays. Contributors include Sandra Alfoldy (NSCAD University), Paul Bourassa (Musée des beaux-arts de Québec), Brent Cordner (designer and educator, Toronto), Douglas Coupland (artist and author, Vancouver), Bernard Flaman (Government of Saskatchewan), Rachel Gotlieb (freelance curator and writer, Toronto), Michael Large (Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning), and Michael Prokopow (Design Exchange).
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February 2005, Montreal
Architecture in Canada
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De Douglas Coupland à Paul Bourassa, des artistes, conservateurs et historiens de I'art renommés jettent un regard sur le design et I'identité canadienne des années soixante.
Fabriqué au Canada : métiers d'art et design dans les années soixante
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De Douglas Coupland à Paul Bourassa, des artistes, conservateurs et historiens de I'art renommés jettent un regard sur le design et I'identité canadienne des années soixante.
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February 2005, Montréal
Architecture in Canada
The prefabricated home
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Prefabrication cannot be ignored, for it challenges the most traditional values of architecture. Architects may have neglected this area of practical construction, but they have much to learn from pattern-book houses, modular structures, Portakabins and mobile homes. The Prefabricated Home examines how the relationship between architecture and industrialized building(...)
The prefabricated home
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Prefabrication cannot be ignored, for it challenges the most traditional values of architecture. Architects may have neglected this area of practical construction, but they have much to learn from pattern-book houses, modular structures, Portakabins and mobile homes. The Prefabricated Home examines how the relationship between architecture and industrialized building has now become an urgent issue for architects.Colin Davies traces the history of prefabricated buildings from small-scale ‘prefabs’ to the precast concrete mass housing of the 1960s to the present-day revival of interest in ‘volumetric’ modular buildings, and assesses their architectural implications. He looks at what is happening today in factories and on building sites worldwide, and contrasts the aesthetic concerns of architects with the economic ones of industrialized building manufacturers. He argues that the involvement of architects in industrialized building can produce an exciting new type of architecture that is humane, liberating and environmentally friendly. The Prefabricated Home is a revealing and instructive book that will appeal to anyone interested in architecture and concerned with the future of housing.
Prefabricated Architecture
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This catalogue accompanies the exhibition organised by the Whitechapel Gallery and the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art. With new essays by Iwona Blazwick and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, curators, as well by Ester Coen, Charles Harrison, and Jill Lloyd, this catalogue includes an anthology of quotes and writings by authors including Baudelaire, Poe,(...)
Faces in the crowd : picturing modern life from Manet to today
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This catalogue accompanies the exhibition organised by the Whitechapel Gallery and the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art. With new essays by Iwona Blazwick and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, curators, as well by Ester Coen, Charles Harrison, and Jill Lloyd, this catalogue includes an anthology of quotes and writings by authors including Baudelaire, Poe, Benjamin, LeBon, Simmel, Freud, Adorno, Canetti, Arendt, Wall and Buck-Morss.
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January 1900, London
Contemporary Art Monographs
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An updated classic on designing both functional and visually stunning bridges. This highly visual guide to understanding and using aesthetics in the design of bridges is now available in a second edition. You'll find updated bridge examples, improved photographs, and more technical depth for serious engineering study. New case studies of bridges currently underway(...)
Engineering Structures
January 1900, Hoboken, New Jersey
Bridgescape : the art of designing bridges
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An updated classic on designing both functional and visually stunning bridges. This highly visual guide to understanding and using aesthetics in the design of bridges is now available in a second edition. You'll find updated bridge examples, improved photographs, and more technical depth for serious engineering study. New case studies of bridges currently underway provide real-world coverage, with an emphasis on the relationship between design problems, planning, and solutions, along with structural and cost challenges. Featuring a larger page size to better highlight the detailed illustrations and photos, this edition's entirely new coverage includes discussion on the "whys" behind various recommendations, new material on moveable bridges, ways to respond to the structural and cost challenges involved in construction, integration of Context-Sensitive Design/Context-Sensitive Solutions (CSD/CSS) into the design process, twelve new case studies of bridges, with an emphasis on the relationship between design problems and planning their solutions, and information on the contribution of bridge aesthetics to environmental impact studies.
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January 1900, Hoboken, New Jersey
Engineering Structures
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This catalogue of seemingly casual gestures often creates an impact that can be considered deliberate, almost political, as it presents a sort of occupation of spaces, albeit prefabricated and temporary. "What we want" is a compelling project of photographs, accounts and maps that describe an urban geography modified by new pioneers.
What we want : landscape as a projection of people's desire
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This catalogue of seemingly casual gestures often creates an impact that can be considered deliberate, almost political, as it presents a sort of occupation of spaces, albeit prefabricated and temporary. "What we want" is a compelling project of photographs, accounts and maps that describe an urban geography modified by new pioneers.
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February 2005, Milano
Photography monographs
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“Architecture & Arts” documents the innovations brought about by painters, sculptors, designers, writers, photographers, and filmmakers, as well as creators from the widest variety of artistic circles and expressive styles, into the field of architecture. At the same time, it reveals the digressions of architects into the visual arts, a discipline that has shared with(...)
Architecture & arts 1900 /2004 : a century of creative projects in building, design, cinema, painting, sculpture
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“Architecture & Arts” documents the innovations brought about by painters, sculptors, designers, writers, photographers, and filmmakers, as well as creators from the widest variety of artistic circles and expressive styles, into the field of architecture. At the same time, it reveals the digressions of architects into the visual arts, a discipline that has shared with architecture a common project of a radical, at times visionary, aesthetic transformation of reality. The volume includes works by Malevich, Cartier-Bresson, Steichen, Terragni, Depero, Fritz Lang, Le Corbusier, Gehry, Rossi, Piano, and Oldenburg, to name a few. This richly illustrated volume offers a complete overview of architects and artists from the historic avant-gardes (Futurism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Dadaism, Neoplasticism, Expressionism, Surrealism, and the modern movements until the postwar period) to the contemporary world, starting from Informal-Spatialist work and continuing with Situationism, Brutalism, Pop Art, Minimalism, and Post modernism to the present day.
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February 2005, Milan
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Le Champ mimétique
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Dans ce livre sur l'acte de naissance de l'esthétique occidentale, Jean-Christophe Bailly montre comment furent dégagées en Grèce ancienne les conditions d'avènement de l'image, au sens que nous donnons toujours à ce mot. Entre les actes de représentation (peinture, sculpture, danse, théâtre, écriture) et les espaces par lesquels la cité acquiert sa forme, la relation est(...)
Le Champ mimétique
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Dans ce livre sur l'acte de naissance de l'esthétique occidentale, Jean-Christophe Bailly montre comment furent dégagées en Grèce ancienne les conditions d'avènement de l'image, au sens que nous donnons toujours à ce mot. Entre les actes de représentation (peinture, sculpture, danse, théâtre, écriture) et les espaces par lesquels la cité acquiert sa forme, la relation est directe : c'est le même mouvement qui s'accoutume au vide de l'espace et qui y dispose des figures. On retrouve la même logique d'évidement et les mêmes régimes d'intervalle dans l'espace politique de la cité et dans les représentations. Le "champ mimétique" est le nom ici donné à cette unité, où peut se lire aussi un formidable travail de rangement du monde. En tressant ensemble philosophie et histoire de l'art, tout au long d'un voyage enthousiaste et rigoureux, Jean-Christophe Bailly ne nous fait remonter aux sources que pour mieux redescendre jusqu'à notre actualité et à ce paradoxe selon lequel nous serions à la fois dans une civilisation de l'image et en train de sortir de l'âge de la représentation.
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January 2005, Paris
Architectural Theory
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KL(A)152 : la Villette
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Gilles de Bure, écrivain et critique, et Aymeric Fouquez, photographe écrivent en trois mots et quelques clics l’histoire de l’étonnante expérience qui consista à édifier en plein milieu du parc de la Villette, (sans permis de construire, il s’agissait d’un aménagement forain, c’est pour cette raison que ces maisons étaient inhabitables, même pour une nuit) deux maisons(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 2005, Morey, France
KL(A)152 : la Villette
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Gilles de Bure, écrivain et critique, et Aymeric Fouquez, photographe écrivent en trois mots et quelques clics l’histoire de l’étonnante expérience qui consista à édifier en plein milieu du parc de la Villette, (sans permis de construire, il s’agissait d’un aménagement forain, c’est pour cette raison que ces maisons étaient inhabitables, même pour une nuit) deux maisons à l’architecture contemporaine, avec des procédés issus de la filière sèche. Le bois pour les architectes Aldric Beckmann, et Françoise N’Thépé, l’acier pour Gaëlle Hamonic et Jean-Christophe Masson. Le tout habillé en juste au corps par les épatantes paysagistes Claire Gilot et Daphné Mandel-Bouvard. Cette opération avait pour maître d’ouvrage le visionnaire Eric Justman pour le compte de Renov. Dans un court texte inspiré, Gilles de Bure nous raconte la rencontre d’un site et d’un projet.
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January 2005, Morey, France
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Of all the elements in nature, none is more life affirming than water. We’re born into this wonderful world after swimming in the mysterious elixir for nine months, and then we spend the rest of our days seeking out its sustaining powers. When you consider that two-thirds of our bodies are comprised of water, it’s no wonder we are so drawn to it. And when nature doesn’t(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
November 2004, Gloucester
Pools and spas : new designs for gracious living
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Of all the elements in nature, none is more life affirming than water. We’re born into this wonderful world after swimming in the mysterious elixir for nine months, and then we spend the rest of our days seeking out its sustaining powers. When you consider that two-thirds of our bodies are comprised of water, it’s no wonder we are so drawn to it. And when nature doesn’t place water where we can easily access it, we have no problem bringing water to us in the form of luxurious swimming pools and hot tubs.
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November 2004, Gloucester
Commercial interiors, Building types